Inderscience journals to invite expanded papers from International Scientific Conference "Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Economics Engineering" for potential publication

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Scientific Conference "Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Economics Engineering" (9-10 May, 2019, Vilnius, Lithuania) will be invited for review and potential publication by the following journals:

• Int. J. of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies
• Int. J. of Learning and Change

Special issue published: "Knowledge Based Development, Theory and Applications on the Knowledge Economy"

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 9(3) 2018

• Big data modelling the knowledge economy
• The economic role of small knowledge intensive firms in European member states
• The impact of entrepreneurship framework conditions in total early-stage entrepreneurship activity: an international approach
• Influence of knowledge sharing on organisational performance
• The influence of knowledge sharing on Portuguese healthcare organisations' performance
• A conceptual approach to integrating healthcare services: an investigation of the Portuguese case
• Applying open innovation to promote the development of a knowledge city: the Culiacan experience

Research pick: Improving Indonesian health - "Generic drugs in Indonesia: why physicians and pharmacists matters"

In 2014, Indonesia introduced National Health Insurance. One of the goals of the new program was to increase the use of generic, rather than expensive proprietary pharmaceuticals. In 2011, generic use was low at 14% whereas policymakers and purse-string holders felt that if the use of generics was broadened much greater savings could be made. A large survey of patients revealed that information from one’s physician has the biggest effect on whether or not patients opt for a generic version of the medication they require. Additionally, experience with a given pharmaceutical also has a significant impact on whether or not the generic drug is chosen in preference to the proprietary product.

Generic drugs are essentially identical to the products offered by large drug companies even after the drugs’ patents have long expired with one important difference that has an even more significant effect in the developing world – they are cheaper. It is critical that policymakers and healthcare workers push for greater use of generics products in order to cut the healthcare bill and allow healthcare to be more widely available through those cost savings.

Amelia, A. and Ronald, R. (2018) ‘Generic drug in Indonesia: why physicians and pharmacists matters’, Int. J. Monetary Economics and Finance, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.307–315.

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management increases issues

The International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management has announced that it will be increasing issues from six to eight from 2019 onwards.

Special issue published: "Relationships in Web Based Communities"

International Journal of Web Based Communities 14(3) 2018

• Understanding the motivation in massive open online courses: a Twitter mining perspective
• Friendship acceptance on Facebook: men prefer cold calls from attractive women while women favour unattractive friends
• Moderating effect of gender on the relationship between extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness and Facebook use
• Social Capital: An Influence on Critical to Success Factors in Online Brand Communities
• We learn from each other: exploring interpersonal communications in online communities
• A tag-based recommender system framework for social bookmarking websites

New Editor for International Journal of Sustainable Design

Prof. Guangwei Huang from Sophia University in Japan has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Sustainable Design.

Research pick: Chemical risk assessment - "An approach to identify, prioritise and provide regulatory follow-up actions for new or emerging risks of chemicals for workers, consumers and the environment"

Researchers in The Netherlands and Italy are developing a new approach to identifying and providing prioritized regulatory follow-up actions for new or emerging chemical risks. The approach could benefit workers, consumers, and the environment. The team describes their approach as “a comprehensive and systematic approach for the identification of new or emerging risks of chemicals”.

First, new information is assimilated, then exposure and adverse effects are evaluated and prioritized, and where a problem is apparent an analysis of regulatory risk management options is undertaken so that timely recommendations of follow-up steps can be carried out to reduce or eliminate putative risks for a given substance.

L.G., Hogendoorn, E.A., Bakker, J., van Broekhuizen, F.A., Palmen, N.G.M., de Bruin, Y.B., Kooi, M., Sijm, D.T.H.M. and Traas, T.P. (2018) ‘An approach to identify, prioritise and provide regulatory follow-up actions for new or emerging risks of chemicals for workers, consumers and the environment’, Int. J. Risk Assessment and Management, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp.248–269.

International Journal of Automation and Control increases issues

The International Journal of Automation and Control has announced that it will be increasing issues from four to six from 2019 onwards.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Automotive Composites

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Automotive Composites are now available here for free:

• Fatigue life prediction of composite material's adhesive joints in automotive applications
• An evaluation of polymer composites for car bumper beam
• Investigations into electrical discharge machining of fabricated AA 6061/10% Al2O3 aluminium-based metal matrix composite using OFAT approach
• Suitability assessments for advanced composite-metal hybrid material systems in automotive crash structural applications
• Draping simulation-supported framework for cost- and weight- effective composite design

Special issue published: "Heavy Vehicle Systems in Real-Time Applications"

International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems 25(3/4) 2018

• An investigation on the fatigue performance of austempered ductile iron steering knuckle
• Parametric analysis of axial flux HUB motor for the electric vehicle in rural areas
• Automated multimodal background detection and shadow removal process using robust principal fuzzy gradient partial equation methods in intelligent transportation systems
• Anomalies detection from video surveillance using support vector trained deep neural network classifier
• Evaluation of outlier detection algorithms for traffic congestion assessment in smart city traffic data from vehicle sensors
• Robust detection and recognition of traffic signs on road panels
• Mapping the structure and evolution of heavy vehicle research: a scientometric analysis and visualisation
• Location optimisation for road side unit deployment and maximising communication probability in multilane highway
• Adaptive mobility-based intelligent decision-making system for driver behaviour prediction with motion nano sensor in VANET
• Corrosion, adhesion and erosion study of MZ and ML system using thermal plasma
• Evaluation of mechanical performance of friction welded AISI304L grade stainless steel joints
• Investigation of mechanical, morphological studies and electrochemical micro holing process parameters on Al6061-SiC-Gr hybrid metal matrix composites
• An experimental investigation on the performance of a CI engine when using LTC with a blend of diesel, biodiesel and ethanol
• Research on vehicle location-distribution problem based on uncertain demand and low carbon emission
• Secure and compact implementation of optimized Montgomery multiplier based elliptic curve cryptography on FPGA with road vehicular traffic collecting protocol for VANET application
• Investigation of energy availability for vapour absorption refrigeration system from engine exhaust

Additional paper

• Optimal design of passive suspension system of a 6 × 6 multi-wheeled all-terrain vehicle using genetic algorithm

Research pick: Celebrities over experts - "Measuring the comparative efficacy of an attractive celebrity influencer vis-à-vis an expert influencer – a fashion industry perspective"

Do attractive celebrity figures have more influence on public opinion than experts when it comes to consumer fashion choice? Given that influencer marketing is on the rise – essentially exploiting word-of-mouth from the words of well-known and favoured individuals – then understanding whether or not this kind of marketing is more effective when the influencer is a celebrity or a well-known fashion expert is an important topic of research for the fashion industry.

Researchers in India have surveyed several hundred individuals in the “Generation Y” cohort, those born after 1980, and looked at how they made their fashion choices in the wake of following celebrities and fashion experts on social media. Perhaps not unsurprisingly, the research established that attractive celebrity influencers have a much greater impact on the choices made by Gen Y individuals over fashion experts, pointing to the seemingly obvious idea that attractive celebrities can be used to market products more effectively than the less famous but more expert individual.

Trivedi, J.P. (2018) ‘Measuring the comparative efficacy of an attractive celebrity influencer vis-à-vis an expert influencer – a fashion industry perspective’, Int. J. Electronic Customer Relationship Management, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.256–271.

International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems increases issues

The International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems has announced that it will be increasing issues from four to six from 2019 onwards.

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing increases issues

The International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing has announced that it will be increasing issues from four to six from 2019 onwards.

Research pick: Blue noise cancellation - "A blue noise pattern sampling method based on cloud computing to prevent aliasing"

A significant problem in computer graphics and digital photography is the presence of high-frequency “noise” in an image, which occurs in the form of random speckles or aberrant pixels that reduce the overall information content of the image especially when magnifying particular regions of the image for examination. The effect is manifest as a phenomenon known as aliasing and anti-aliasing techniques and filters are available to cope with it…to some extent.

Now, researchers in China have developed a new algorithm that utilises the distributed resources of cloud computing to sample blue noise and prevent image-distorting aliasing effects in a digital image. Their approach shows significant performance gains over conventional error-resilient encoding methods and native redundant encoding methods, they report.

Zhan, A., Hu, Y., Yu, M. and Zhang, Y. (2018) ‘A blue noise pattern sampling method based on cloud computing to prevent aliasing‘, Int. J. Innovative Computing and Applications, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.173-179.

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering increases issues

The International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering has announced that it will be increasing issues from eight to twelve from 2019 onwards.

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking increases issues

The International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking has announced that it will be increasing issues from eight to twelve from 2019 onwards.

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology increases issues

The International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology has announced that it will be increasing issues from eight to twelve from 2019 onwards.

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control increases issues

The International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control has announced that it will be increasing issues from eight to twelve from 2019 onwards.

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications increases issues

The International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications has announced that it will be increasing issues from four to six from 2019 onwards.

International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering increases issues

The International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering has announced that it will be increasing issues from four to six from 2019 onwards.

International Journal of Information and Computer Security increases issues

The International Journal of Information and Computer Security has announced that it will be increasing issues from four to six from 2019 onwards.

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms increases issues

The International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms has announced that it will be increasing issues from eight to twelve from 2019 onwards.

Research pick: Mindful of training - "Developing management skills through experiential learning: the effectiveness of outdoor training and mindfulness"

Researchers in Spain are developing a tool to measure the personal and interpersonal skills of individuals who have engaged in experiential learning based on outdoor training and mindfulness. Employees, master’s and undergraduate students were evaluated looking at teamwork, communication, leadership, motivation, stress tolerance, organisation and planning, responsibility, and analysis, resolution and anticipation of problems.

The success of the tool highlights how important it is in the workplace and in the educational environment to evaluate “competencies” being taught.

del Val Núñez, M.T., Romero, F.J.C., Sánchez, R.C. and Aránega, A.Y. (2018) ‘Developing management skills through experiential learning: the effectiveness of outdoor training and mindfulness’, European J. International Management, Vol. 12, Nos. 5/6, pp.676–694.

International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology increases issues

The International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology has announced that it will be increasing issues from four to six from 2019 onwards.

International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining increases issues

The International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining has announced that it will be increasing issues from four to eight from 2019 onwards.

Research pick: Shades of grey reveal breast tumours - "Classification of breast abnormality using decision tree based on GLCM features in mammograms"

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women. Mammography is the best imaging technology for early detection of tumours in breast tissue.

Now, researchers in India have developed a new approach to the classification of abnormalities in the breast using a decision tree based on GLCM (grey level co-occurrence matrices). This allows useful texture and statistical features to be extracted from a medical image based on the pixel “brightness” value in the digital image.

In the new approach noise is reduced following data acquisition using pre-processing and then the image is examined using the GLCM technique to help discern between benign and malignant tissue seen in the mammogram.

Kamalakannan, J. and Babu, M.R. (2018) ‘Classification of breast abnormality using decision tree based on GLCM features in mammograms’, Int. J. Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp.504–512.

Inderscience journals to invite expanded papers from 2nd International Conference on Communication, Devices and Computing for potential publication

Extended versions of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Communication, Devices and Computing (14-15 March, 2019, Haldia, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the following journals:

• Int. J. of Autonomic Computing
• Int. J. of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence
• Int. J. of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems

International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering to invite expanded papers from International Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference for potential publication

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference (17- 20 April 2019, Trabzon, Turkey) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering.

Research pick: South Africa’s financial imbalance - "An analysis of the financial inclusion in South Africa considering race, education and income"

Research from Egypt on financial inclusion in South Africa considering race, education, and income has concluded that Caucasian members of the population are more likely to have bank accounts. the work also showed that higher education is correlated with an increased awareness of financial planning.

Individuals described as “coloured” in the paper and individuals described as “Africans” were shown to be the least likely to own bank accounts. These individuals in the population were shown to have four years less education on average than Caucasian individuals.

The paper notes the considerable evidence that the success of self- employed individuals and entrepreneurs’ successes are related to ethnic group even after the end to racial segregation, Apartheid, in 1994. The paper shows a clear inequality between ethnic groups. Financial inclusion is needed for long-term economic growth and poverty reduction.

Omran, M.F. (2018) ‘An analysis of the financial inclusion in South Africa considering race, education and income’, World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp.657–667. B

Research pick: ICT: The new A & E? - "ICT enabled collaborative e-health for cleft lip/palate treatment"

Researchers in the UK have been investigating the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) to improve access to medical services in remote areas. More specifically, they have been working on a practical ICT solution base on a case study carried out in Northern Thailand looking at cleft-lip/palate treatment.

Medical treatment of this condition requires many skills and several differing inputs from numerous disciplines. This means quality treatment is often limited in remote areas and receiving proper and effective treatment is difficult. In Thailand, because healthcare services are centralised, the researchers have proposed a collaborative framework. This includes the supporting of data sharing for medical teams to allow for the empowerment of local healthcare.

ICT can enhance knowledge transfer and one aim of this research is to create an expert system for conditions that require multidisciplinary treatment by generating an e-health service system. The hope is to improve care quality to patients in remote areas and there is continuing evaluation of the current platform implemented for cleft-lip/palate treatment.

Choosri, N., Khwanngern, K., Yu, H., Thongbunjob, K., Sukhahuta, R., Natwichai, J., Boonma, P., Atkins, A. and Sitthikham, S. (2018) ‘ICT enabled collaborative e-health for cleft lip/palate treatment’, Int. J. Agile Systems and Management, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.270–292.

Special issue published: "Modelling and Simulation of Chaotic Processes"

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling 13(5) 2018

• A new biological snap oscillator: its modelling, analysis, simulations and circuit design
• Extreme multi-stability in hyperjerk memristive system with hidden attractors and its adaptive synchronisation scheme
• Complex walking behaviours, chaos and bifurcations of a simple passive compass-gait biped model suffering from leg length asymmetry
• String of scrolls from a time-delayed chaotic circuit
• Secure communication and image encryption scheme based on synchronisation of fractional order chaotic systems using backstepping
• Stability study and dynamical analysis of the multicellular chopper

Additional papers

• K-DBSCAN: an efficient density-based clustering algorithm supports parallel computing
• Cognitive smart environment: an approach based on concept hierarchies and sensor data fusion

Special issue published: "Headlines of Russian Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies in 2017"

International Journal of Nanotechnology 15(4/5) 2018

• Attosecond nanotechnology: from subatomic electrostatic strings entangling electron pairs to supra-atomic quantum nanoelectromechanical systems energy storage in materials
• Agro ecological grounding for the application of metal nanopowders in agriculture
• Preparation of liposomes containing benzophenanthridine alkaloid sanguinarine and evaluation of its cytotoxic activity
• Elaboration of a bacterial cellulose matrix for the immobilisation of Escherichia coli cells
• On the interaction of thermal and strain-wave processes in coals
• Nanocomposites for luminescent tumour diagnostics and theranostics
• Research of sheet thickness effect on mechanical and technological properties of Al-1%Mn aluminium alloy
• Multicriteria optimisation of the formulation of modified fine-grained fibre concretes containing carbon nanostructures
• Problems of education in the field of nanotechnology
• Nanopowders of cuprum, cobalt and their oxides used in the intensive technology for growing cucumbers
• Information representation and retrieval in nanoengineering applications
• Investigation of Finemet nanocrystalline alloy coating obtained by the electric spark method
• Complementary memristive diode cells for the memory matrix of a neuromorphic processor
• Mesoporous carbon materials for supercapacitors prepared by the pyrolysis of polymers
• The effect of Langmuir arachidic acid layers on surface morphology and electrical properties of a polycrystalline CdS film
• Epilam multifunctional nanosized protective films: synergy effect of antiadhesive and anti-frictional properties
• The influence of hydrothermal nanosilica powder aquaspersions on the vital capacity of Daphnia magna Straus crustaceans
• Sorption activity of nanostructured materials

Press release: Emergency mobile - "Swift personal emergency help facilitated by the mobile cloud"

Medical emergencies inevitably require an urgent response from doctors and other healthcare workers. Response time can mean the difference between life and death. As such, there are ongoing efforts in many areas of research to find technological approaches to reducing response times in order to improve medical outcomes. Writing in the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, an academic team from Ireland explain how and why mobile cloud computing can be an answer.

The team of Hazzaa Alshareef and Dan Grigoras has responded to the problem by developing a mobile cloud service, which they explain works side-by-side with the existing emergency system. It is “aimed at reducing the time spent waiting for emergency help to arrive, as well as making the best use of medical professionals who may be located in close proximity to the medical case,” the team writes.

In earlier work, the team introduced a mobile ad hoc network, MANET, manager service that is hosted in the cloud. This system allows all mobile users to be reached, including those without “cellular” connectivity but who are connected to the internet via Wi-Fi. In subsequent work, they proposed a way to manage active sessions between users on the same MANET to reduce save mobile resource demands and preclude data loss or misuse. In a third paper, they brought the technology together to introduce a novel system that provides healthcare services to people who are involved in an emergency and are out of reach of home or office.

Now, they have extended this work to extend what might be possible to include wearable sensors, approaches to capturing the time needed to connect those involved in an emergency with those who might assist and so optimize the communication channels, and finally they have improved security.

In trials of the application, the team found that the amount of time needed to find a medical professional and establish communication was between 4 (via the internet) and 25 seconds (text messaging, short message service, SMS), depending on the particular communication method used. In other words, negligible time is added to the process, but the new connectivity could improve the chance of a positive outcome.

Critically, the system augments the conventional emergency services by locating professionals in the vicinity of an emergency and notifying them of what is happening and allowing them to respond appropriately and in a much timelier manner.

“Our future work will develop an algorithm for better management of registered professionals’ activity to achieve fair and efficient outcome, including when they start/end dealing with emergency cases and how often they provide emergency support,” the team concludes. They also plan to extend the options available with wearable smart sensors for people with particular medical needs who might find themselves in an emergency situation.

Alshareef, H. and Grigoras, D. (2018) ‘Swift personal emergency help facilitated by the mobile cloud’, Int. J. High Performance Computing and Networking, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp.1–12.

Research pick: Bayesian malaria classification - "A framework for predicting malaria using naïve Bayes classifier"

A type of statistics first developed in the 19th Century could help improve our understanding of the spread of malaria, which very much remains a lethal infection in this century.

Researchers from Nigeria have employed a naïve Bayes as a probability classifier to help them predict whether or not new patients arriving with symptoms first actually have the parasitic disease and if they do what level of severity of infection and symptoms they are suffering. Such classification could help prioritise those patients who need urgent treatment.

The “framework” developed by the team has now been tested successfully on a sample dataset of some 700 records from a hospital in Yola, in Nigeria’s Adamawa State.

Aliyu, A., Prasad, R. and Fonkam, M. (2018) ‘A framework for predicting malaria using naïve Bayes classifier’, Int. J. Telemedicine and Clinical Practices, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.78–93.

New Editor for International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Surface Engineering

Prof. Fei Yin from the Wuhan University of Technology in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Surface Engineering.

Research pick: Lean healthcare - "A comparative analysis of lean implementations in NHS England hospitals"

A “lean” business approach to healthcare could reducing patient times, allow staff to be employed more effectively, improve the quality of healthcare provision, decrease waste and lower costs. However, three case studies carried out in the UK’s National Health Service suggests that there are still significant barriers to the adoption of “lean” practices that aim to streamlines processes and interactions and operate on an as-needed basis in terms of the provision of supplies and services. The main barrier for almost nine out of every ten NHS staff interviewed was one of terminology and understanding the fundamental concepts of “lean”. Leadership and better communication of the paradigm are needed if the rewards of implementing a lean approach are to be wrought.

Deara, A., Deara, M., Bamber, C. and Elezi, E. (2018) ‘A comparative analysis of lean implementations in NHS England hospitals’, Int. J. Lean Enterprise Research, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp.218–239.

Special issue published: "Enterprise Network Management Technologies and Tools for E-Commerce, Mobile Commerce and Social Commerce Frameworks"

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management 9(3/4) 2018

• Entropy a new measure to gauge search engine optimisation
• Impact of talent management practices on employee retention - an empirical study in select IT companies with special reference to Chennai
• Classification approach to avoid link failures in wireless sensor networks in mobile virtual communities and teleworking
• Wireless system for flight safety industry
• SaaS multitenant performance testing over social networks
• An anomaly-based network intrusion detection system using ensemble clustering
• Power efficient digital circuits for ECG front end data acquisition mobile system
• Three phase optimisation for qualified and secured VMs for resource allocation
• Determinants of smartwatch adoption among IT professionals - an extended UTAUT2 model for smartwatch enterprise
• An efficient protocol for power consumption in wireless enterprise ad hoc virtual community network with Triso framework
• A framework for antecedents of trust in social commerce
• Authentication as a service in cloud from a fuzzy perspective
• An empirical study on customer adoption of mobile payment application in India
• Ontology-based effective information retrieval from the web using concept aware user profile construction
• The effects of brand image in purchasing of online marketing among university students
• Multisite aggregate production and distribution planning: a review
• Stress of new age entrepreneurs and its implications of affecting heart-alerting-heart using MIOT
• An automatic construction of domain ontology to analyse competence prerequisites of jobs
• Determinants of online consumer behaviour towards e-tailing in India

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Quality Engineering and Technology

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Quality Engineering and Technology are now available here for free:

• Quality Insights: Impact of cognitive load on the manufacturing cost of quality
• Identifying factors for evaluating software project proposals
• Designing of CUSUM chart with transformed Rayleigh distributed data
• Multivariate Bayesian control chart based on economic and economic-statistical design using Monte Carlo method and ABC algorithm
• Decreasing the effect of measurement errors on detecting and diagnosing performance of MAX-EWMAMS control chart in Phase II
• Visualising the cost of quality investment using equity breakeven point
• Multivariate exponentially weighted moving sample covariance control chart for monitoring covariance matrix
• Economic and economic statistical designs of X control charts under Burr XII shock model

Research pick: Work-life balance - "An empirical research on quality of work-life – an employee perspective"

Dramatic advances in technology and the intensification of global competition in the business world have disrupted considerably the work-life balance of many people the world over, where prior to the advent of smartphones and “always-on” connectivity, home time was to some extent personal and private, but today work impinges increasingly in that environment through those devices. Moreover, the global nature of business now means that timezones are irrelevant and employees are often expected to be accessible and available 24/7 in many realms of work, particularly those in the employ of multinational companies with worldwide dominance. Researchers in India have studied this imbalance and offer new suggestions as to how employers can compromise in terms of the company’s demands and the needs of the individual members of staff.

Swarochi, G., Seema, A. and Sujatha, S. (2018) ‘An empirical research on quality of work-life – an employee perspective’, Int. J. Management Development, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.34–80.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Economics and Accounting

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Economics and Accounting are now available here for free:

• Comparative analysis of investment funding in the Nigerian oil and agricultural sector
• Politicisation of the professions
• Board members in squeeze-out transactions: an event study analysis
• Corporate governance and financial performance of listed banks: evidence form emerging market
• Corporate governance and voluntary disclosure: evidence from Bahrain

Research pick: Search skills - "Unpacking cognitive skills engaged in web-search: how can log files, eye movements, and cued-retrospective reports help? An in-depth qualitative case study"

We need a clearer understanding of the cognitive activity that happens when we do web searches. Researchers in Spain have carried out an in-depth qualitative case study and suggest that log files, eye movements, and cued-retrospective reports could help us get a clearer picture of how people search. The findings could be important for teaching search skills and helping students understand different approaches to searching. The work could have implications for improving collaborative learning, peer-to-peer interaction, self-regulation learning, and game-based learning.

Argelagós, E., Brand-Gruwel, S., Jarodzka, H.M. and Pifarré, M. (2018) ‘Unpacking cognitive skills engaged in web-search: how can log files, eye movements, and cued-retrospective reports help? An in-depth qualitative case study’, Int. J. Innovation and Learning, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp.152–175

International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing to invite expanded papers from ICRISET 2018 for potential publication

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference On Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology (14-15 December 2018, CHARUSAT, Changa, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing are now available here for free:

• Sensitivity analysis of truck tyre hydroplaning speed using FEA-SPH model
• Validating power management strategies for hybrid sport motorcycles: a virtual prototyping approach
• Methodology for developing a neural network leaf spring model
• An optimal robust controller for active trailer differential braking systems of car-trailer combinations
• Theoretical and experimental analytical study of powertrain system by hardware-in-the-loop test bench for electric vehicles
• Adaptive optimal control for integrated active front steering and direct yaw moment based on approximate dynamic programming
• Evaluation of velocity and curvature dependence for roadgrip measured by low lateral slip

Special issue published: "Critical Success Factors for Public Transportation"

International Journal of System of Systems Engineering 8(4) 2018

• Framing success: the Netherlands railways experience
• The redesign process of the timetable for the Dutch railway sector: a theoretical approach
• Validity of railway microscopic simulations under the microscope: two case studies
• DEMATEL-AHP technique to minimise departure delays due to airspace congestion: a case in Mactan-Cebu International Airport
• Wheel maintenance in rolling stock: safety challenges in the defect detection process
• There is no spoon: applying virtual reality for maintenance training of rolling stock technicians

Special issue published: "Defining the Frontiers of Business Research Across Emerging Economies"

Journal for Global Business Advancement 11(2) 2018

• Dependency or contagion between the Islamic and conventional banking system: evidence from the FIEGARCH-EVT-copula model
• Audit committee independence, abnormal directors compensation, corporate governance disclosure and price to earnings multiple of Nigerian firms
• Contemporary approaches to performance evaluation of international hotel groups in Portugal
• Drivers of consumers' foreign products purchase: a test of an integrative model
• The joint effect of leadership style and organisational justice on employees' work engagement
• Comparison of outcomes obtained from nominal group technique and survey method: an empirical investigation

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Research pick: Unzip your genes - "Deletion genotype calling on the basis of sequence visualisation and image classification"

A research team in China is developing a new genotyping method using deletion visualisation and classification. This looks at where parts of genes have been lost during DNA repair after damage. Their results showed that the approach was more accurate than earlier methods, had a wider detectable deletion length range, and was able to perform better with high and low coverage data. Tests on simulated data from a range of diseases with high levels of noise compared well against genotype “calling” methods such as Pindel and LUMPY (a probabilistic framework).

Such an approach might be useful in biomedical research into the rare muscle-wasting disease spinal muscular atrophy and the nervous system disorder “cri de chat syndrome”.

Wang, J., Gao, J. and Ling, C. (2018) ‘Deletion genotype calling on the basis of sequence visualisation and image classification’, Int. J. Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.109–122.

Special issue published: "Market Structure and Resource Allocation in Emerging Economies"

International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies 11(4) 2018

• Approach to enhance Thai massage business in Ang Thong Province
• Resource misallocation in Thai manufacturing industries between 1996 and 2011
• ASEAN energy sector under public-private partnership: challenge for market governance
• Opportunistic behaviour on institution of textile industry: West Java-Indonesia experience
• Transparency and privacy in environmental matters
• Comparative study of outplacement programs for building effective operation
• The challenges to achieve commonwealth in an industrial area: case study in Bandar Lampung industrial area
• Relationship between CSR and financial performance: the first comparative study on listed companies in Thailand and the USA
• An institutional perspective of knowledge transfer within university and industry alliance
• Retail mix strategies of hypermarkets in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
• Efforts to enhance active cooperatives in Indonesia based on macroeconomic variables

Special issue published: "Connecting the Dots Between Management and Governance: A Comparative Corporate Governance Mechanism"

International Journal of Comparative Management 1(3) 2018

• Connectivity and closeness among international financial institutions: a network theory perspective
• Is Eurasian Economic Union governance effective? Implications for the strategic entrepreneurship and innovation
• Corporate governance relationship with strategic management: a longitudinal case analysis of RELX Group (Elsevier)
• Corporate governance mechanisms and income smoothing: the case of European Union banks
• The impact of corporate governance on earnings management in emerging economies: the Greek evidence

Thematic issue published: "Research Methods in International Management"

European Journal of International Management 12(5/6) 2018

• Cross-cultural diversity management in service firms
• New strategies to measure and strengthen the social role of business incubators: their application to a Spanish region
• The influence of leadership styles on the internationalisation of 'born-global' firms and traditionally global-expanding firms
• Exploring the asymmetric influence of socioemotional wealth priorities on entrepreneurial behaviour in family businesses
• Estimating the determinants of executive selection in multinational companies: a two-sided matching model
• Multinational enterprise subsidiaries in local clusters: embeddedness or isolation?
• The comparative method and comparative management: uneasy bedfellows or natural partners?
• Strategic decision-making in family firms: an explorative study
• Developing management skills through experiential learning: the effectiveness of outdoor training and mindfulness

Regularly submitted papers

• Chinese firms in Ireland: profile, motives and impact of human resource and industrial relations factors
• Toward a 'masstige' theory and strategy for marketing

Research pick: Can you get no satisfaction? - "Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven’s theory"

A paper from The Netherlands found, through tests of Veenhoven’s theory, that life- satisfaction is more about feeling well than having what you want. The researches assessed individual’s satisfaction with their lives, as a whole, using two information sources: How well we feel most of the time and to what extent life has brought us what we want from it. The paper focuses on how much an individual likes their own lives.

It highlights the debate surrounding the nature of happiness and weightings of affective experience (need-theory) and the success of meeting wants (comparison theory). Overall, the research fits the theory that life satisfaction draws first on affective experience, that individuals will draw on the experiences they have rather than how well they meet their wants in life.

Kainulainen, S., Saari, J. and Veenhoven, R. (2018) ‘Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want. Tests of Veenhoven’s theory’, Int. J. Happiness and Development, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.209–235.

Special issue published: "Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives in Small and Medium Enterprises"

Global Business and Economics Review 20(5/6) 2018

• A model for testing the relationship between company's size and performance: a cross country analysis
• Determinants of technological and no-technological innovation in SMEs: the case of Crete
• How to measure the efficiency of the diffusion of innovation in the supply chain - proposed methodology
• Innovation and social responsibility in food ingredients market
• Utilisation of emotional intelligence in the retail banking sector - a preliminary model for Lebanon
• Italian credit cooperative banks: the fundamental role in supporting the growth of SMEs and family businesses
• The antecedents and consequences of Lovemarks: a study of the attitudes and perceptions of football club fans
• Internal CSR practices within the SME sector in Cyprus from the employees' perspective - challenges and prospects
• The acquisition of entrepreneurial competencies in a virtual platform: a structural equation model
• Linking entrepreneurial orientation to brand reputation

Additional papers

• Population, immigration and growth in a Romer endogenous growth model
• Does domain specific consumer innovativeness vary with consumers' individual cultural orientation?

Special issue published: "Embracing the Asean Economic Community in Indonesia: The Convergence of Management and Technology"

International Journal of Services Technology and Management 24(5/6) 2018

• A case study of Indonesian SMEs: an empirical evidence of SCM practices and their impact on firm performance
• Governance structure choice in the supply chain of broiler chickens: an empirical study in Central Java, Indonesia
• The challenge of e-money adoption for transportation in Indonesia
• Monetary integration in the ASEAN Economic Community challenge: the role of the exchange rate on inflation in Indonesia
• Assessing an information system in a mandatory environment: a case of a government agency in Indonesia
• R&D intensity and allocation: empirical evidence from Indonesia in AEC integration
• Marine renewable energy: opportunities and challenges for community development in coastal area of Indonesia

Research Pick: R.E.S.P.E.C.T: The Key to Happiness - "Respect toward partner mediates the relationship between authenticity and subjective happiness"

Mutual respect in an authentic relationship may lead to the subjective happiness of the individuals. Research from Turkey highlights key points surrounding the relationship between the authenticity of a relationship, how likely the individuals in the relationship are to see themselves as being happy, and how respected the individuals in the relationship feel.

The results showed that respect towards a partner comes from the relationship being positively authentic. It was also demonstrated that the relationship between authenticity and the subjective happiness of the individuals in the relationship are partially mediated by the respect towards the partner.

Uğur, E. (2018) ‘Respect toward partner mediates the relationship between authenticity and subjective happiness’, Int. J. Happiness and Development, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.181–194.

Special issue published: "Multiple Criteria Decision Aid: Advances in Theory and Applications"

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making 7(3/4) 2018

• A decision aiding methodology to compare patient classification systems
• Combining the PROMETHEE method and mathematical programming for multi-objective facility location problem
• A multicriteria analysis to assess the pollution in the southern coastal area of Sfax
• A strategic management based on multicriteria decision analysis: an application for the Alpine regions
• Inferring an ELECTRE I model from binary outranking relations
• A linguistic reliable quality function deployment method for the healthcare sector
• An extension of PROMETHEE II to temporal evaluations

Additional paper

• Interactive decision making with fuzzy goals for simple recourse in multiobjective stochastic programming problems

Press release: Malaysian Airways Flight MH370 - "Geopolitics in the search for the disappeared Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370"

Malaysian Airways Flight MH370 had 239 people on board when it left Kuala Lumpur airport at 00h41 on 8 March 2014 bound for Beijing, China. Its planned flight path would have taken it over Vietnam en route and it had sufficient fuel for the 7-hour flight. However, at 01h19, the aircraft made an unscheduled manoeuvre banking left turn over the Gulf of Siam towards Palau Langkawi, Malaysia and terminating radio voice contact with Malaysian air-traffic control with the final cockpit voice communication recorded as “Good Night Malaysian three seven zero”. The aircraft was not seen or heard from again.

An international effort to find the aircraft, or more to the point wreckage, assuming it had crashed into the sea, was fruitless. The search was focused on the anticipated crash site in the area off the western coast of Australia. However, in the middle of 2015, debris was found inexplicably off the coast of south-eastern Africa. The origin of this recovered flotsam could have been almost anywhere in the western half of the Indian Ocean.

Now, four years on from the original disappearance, Alfred Wong of the Friends of Aboriginal Health, in Vancouver, Canada, has suggested that the probable crash site might only be found if investigators turn their perspective to the prevailing geopolitics of the time and the social psychology of the pilots. He points out that even now, the causes of the final flight path are still largely conjectural: electrical or mechanical failures, hijacking by on-board intruders or by external electronic means, and irrational behaviour by the pilots are frequently mentioned, for instance. Conspiracy theories abound.

Wong suggests that it is time to address the problem and investigate the disappearance of Flight MH370 with the assumption that a crime may have been committed rather than an accident having occurred. “The new comprehensive undertaking should include all direct and circumstantial physical, sociological, political and psychological evidence pertaining to motives and opportunities,” he says. “It is generally known that in most crime scene investigation anywhere in the World, unbiased thorough investigation and subsequent vigorous prosecution are often hampered by political interferences,” he adds. It is now time to circumvent the issues that have hampered the investigations.
Wong proposes that independent qualified experts from disinterested nations, such as Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Bolivia, and Zimbabwe should be recruited at this point to override the suspicion, distrust, and the conspiracy of silence and to provide an explanation for the loss of the aircraft and all of those on board to the world and to the relatives of those who died on Flight MH370.

Wong, A. (2018) ‘Geopolitics in the search for the disappeared Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370‘, Int. J. Forensic Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.47-74.

Special issue published: "Agent-Based System Engineering"

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering 6(2) 2018

• Modelling agent oriented solutions for the smart grid
• Quantitative analysis of multi-agent systems through statistical verification of simulation traces
• An agent programming manifesto
• Validating MAS analysis models with the ASEME methodology

Special issue published: "Clean Energy: Innovation in Policy, Management and Praxis"

International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning 12(1) 2018

• Governance of the clean energy sector in Kazakhstan: impediments to investment
• Policy instruments for renewable energy: an empirical evaluation of effectiveness
• Enabling policy for solar PV: the gap in the urban global south
• Promoting behind-the-meter battery storage: options for more effective government support and regulation
• Community renewables in the UK - a clash of cultures?

Research Pick: But one drink won’t hurt, right? - "Health-related quality of life in consequences from frequency-quantity measures of alcohol consumption patterns"

A paper from New York has shown that low- quantity alcohol drinks have no significant difference in the number of mentally unhealthy days they experience when compared to non-drinkers. The research was carried out to identify the health-related quality of life consequences by using frequency-quantity measures of consumption patterns.

The results of the study showed that those who are current drinkers regardless of consumption pattern are less likely to have physically unhealthy days than non-drinkers but that they were more likely to have negative mental health outcomes, except those that were low frequency, low quantity drinkers. The study also showed that high frequency, low quantity drinkers benefitted the most physically from their alcohol consumption. The impact on health-related quality of life was shown to be variable and dependent on how much and how frequently an individual consumes alcohol.

Son, C-H. (2018) ‘Health-related quality of life in consequences from frequency-quantity measures of alcohol consumption patterns’, Int. J. Happiness and Development, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.236–260.

International Journal of Autonomic Computing to invite expanded papers from 2nd International Conference on Communication, Devices and Computing for potential publication

Extended versions of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Communication, Devices and Computing (14-15 March, 2019, Haldia, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Autonomic Computing.

Special issue published: "Emerging Pervasive and Ubiquitous Networking"

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 29(1/2) 2018

• Internet of things: a research-oriented introductory
• Proficient communication between sensor devices using heuristic approaches in IoT environment
• A novel group ownership proof and transfer scheme for B2B, B2C and C2C transactions
• Adaptive sink mobility for energy-efficient data collection in grid-based wireless sensor networks
• Spider monkey optimisation based energy efficient clustering in heterogeneous underwater wireless sensor networks
• Optimal mobile beacon trajectories for nodes localisation in wireless sensor networks
• An intelligent routing protocol in VANET
• Time slotted channel hopping with collision avoidance
• An adaptive energy efficient flow coverage scheme for mobile crowd sensing in urban streets
• Security scheme for mobility management in the internet of things
• Smart vehicles for urban sensing based on content-centric approach
• CLPS: context-based location privacy scheme for VANETs

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning are now available here for free:

• How to win innovation races in high-tech industries? An evolutionary optimisation model
• Smart specialisation in Malta: a bibliometric look at aquaculture
• Do firm sizes matter for R&D efficiency: evidence for a stochastic metafrontier model
• Multi-agent architecture for optimal energy management of a smart micro-grid using a weighted hybrid BP-PSO algorithm for wind power prediction
• The effects of scenario planning on participant perceptions of grief in organisational change

Special issue published: "Advances in Information Security and Networks"

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking 12(2) 2018

• Full secure identity-based encryption scheme over lattices for wireless sensor networks in the standard model
• The fault diagnosis method of RVM based on FOA and improved multi-class classification algorithm
• Secure data outsourcing scheme in cloud computing with attribute-based encryption
• An optimisation research on two-dimensional age-replacement interval of two-dimensional products
• Extensional schemes of multipartite non-interactive key exchange from multilinear maps and their applications

Additional papers

• An efficient traceable data sharing scheme in cloud computing for mobile devices
• Malicious URL detection with feature extraction based on machine learning
• An efficient symmetric searchable encryption scheme for dynamic dataset in cloud computing paradigms
• Modelling and coordinating multi-source distributed power system models in service-oriented architecture
• Outsourcing privacy-preserving ID3 decision tree over horizontally partitioned data for multiple parties